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by Wetdryvac
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Back
June 30, 1992
there is not a thing but silence
not a thing, not a thing
stretching long, drawing cold and slow out
within there is nothing but silence
without, silent inquisitor
what has become �� of life
where have the times long ago gone
what is left but silence
and since there is no devotion left
nor murmurs in the dalliance
the question waits for the sun to rise
in the whiskers of dry gray dawn comes the sun
no wind beckons out across the wastelands
all remains an even dusty shade
no shadows even �� one could think a moment
to cast a shadow formation must rise above ground
in this stale shade of gray lays particle mater
sun round, sun sets once more
no one saw the sunrise
no one left to pay the sunset
and if they were, would the comprehend
how the sun can set without a change in color
how the sun can rise without warming land
a person standing here would see but vale
and this person standing would cast no shadow
even gay the single shade
as was gray the heart of man
so many years ago
if anyone were left to search
if they were clever to survive
if they found a standing thing
some single shadow where the mountain came down
a clear impression fossilized where stood the razed command
light on the black of the buried stone
silicon shelter gone back to the world
this may be the last memory of a race
I do not know
can only claim what I have seen
stencil of the generals
and flat the crest, world monolith
one thinks of this child race
looking into the sunlight
and in an instant it is gone
dare I speak of dreams become
simply over �� dreaming useless
in death, simply walk on looking
remembering
there is no wind
nor color sweet nor mild
no textured to the powdered ground
the land consumed in mute eternity
preserved unending
should someone, I know not who, come looking
this may they find
only a world with no survivors
no evidence of life excepting fine molecular reduction
a wasteland so sterile, production was process
they may come to stand where I now am
wearing lead to protect them
to look at the wall within razed mountain
and see the only lasting human mark
while I wait, I stand in durance
fading in and out of existence
all the same whenever I return
the sun rises, the sun sets
I can only walk about and listen
do nothing but listen
the silence graven to my world
and I cast my eyes to the shadow
who waited to watch the sunrise
who waited to see what the new day would bring
I heard no noise
just a moment of infinite atmospheric light
a single neural compaction
here I am ��
I cast no shadow
my shadow embedded in buried wall
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